June Hiatus

 Sunday June 7

We did manage to get out on June 1, but the aim was moth traps at Weeting, birding always an intention. Weeting no longer opens as a reserve, the trapping had been arranged by Jane, one of the Titchwell moth-ers who have recently joined the Cley group. We were a few minutes late due to unforeseen traffic delays. The moth-ing looked chaotic. Everyone was milling around the trap with none of the semi organised passing around of egg boxes that we are used to. In the end, Mike, Roger and an unknown man wearing thin black gloves, were very good about making sure that we saw the better moths. We ended up with four lifers, three macros and one micro. Two of he macros were brought in from elsewhere. We'd missed David N's Eastern Bordered Straw   (through a dirty plastic pot).


which he took to Cley on Saturday and the Purple Marbled from the Titchwell group.

A splendid Fox Moth  was the other new micro. 

 


I'm out of the habit of taking a camera along to moth meets as I'm often the scribe. The few I took of the moths here were using my IPhone which has an very good camera. Until now, I have been unable to transfer photos from my phone to the PC. I had a new PC installed last week and my IT man, Thomas, sorted the transfer problem out for me. He is excellent and such a pleasant man too. I wish I'd photographed the Cream-spotted Tiger. Most of all, I wish I'd taken my camera for better photos.

We did have a birding day out along the north Norfolk coast last Wednesday the 3rd, but saw little of note. It was very windy all day with a solid spell of rain around lunchtime and a few light showers from time to time. 

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